A/N: This one's kinda short, I guess. -shrug- Enjoy. -

OMG it's Gaara!

Chapter Four: All together

Soon all three girls were there. They were anxious to see why they'd been called so early. Amy was still in her pajamas. She yawned.

"Riia, why are we all here?" They hadn't seen Gaara yet. She smiled at them all.

"Because you're going to see something amazing, astounding, and possibly quite frightening." Cathryn spoke up.

"You're not going to show us something gross, are you Riia?" She'd known Riia since they were both toddlers, and Riia pulled stuff like this once in a while. The other girl smiled.

"No, Cathryn." Cathryn looked away. Riia looked creepy when she smiled like that.

"Gretchen, what are we seeing?"

"Riia told me not to tell, Amy. Sorry." Suddenly the toilet flushed, and the knob turned. "Ah!"

"Ah what, Riia?" Riia didn't answer. Gaara rounded the corner into the kitchen.

"Riia-san? Could I have some more waffl-" He froze, noticing the other girls, all of whom had frozen as well. "Riia-san..." he said slowly. "Who are they?"

"Cathryn, Sam, and Amy. They are friends as well."

"Riia, who's this?" Riia grinned, and rubbed the makeup off of Gaara's forehead, which had miraculously stayed there overnight. Cathryn gasped, but Sam and Amy looked very confused. Amy recognized him first.

"Holy fish paste! Is that...?"

"Gaara, in the flesh!" Now Sam recognized him. None of the girls besides Riia were major Naruto fans, but they'd seen enough of Riia's art to know what Gaara looked like. Cathryn rounded on her friend.

"If you're lying, Riia..." She pointed at the redhead. "Then I shall be very pissed off. Prove that he's Gaara." Riia nodded.

"Gaara-san, if you will." He nodded curtly, and waved his hand. Sand poured out of his gourd, and floated like fog around his hand.

Cathryn and the rest were now convinced that this was Gaara, and not just a very good cosplayer.

"Riia..." Cathryn squeaked. "How'd he get here?"

"Um... He really just fell out of a tree yesterday."

"No way," muttered Sam. Amy seemed to be taking this quite well. Cathryn poked the sand Nin tentatively.

"Is he going to...?"

"Nah. He's not allowed to hurt people here." She looked at Gaara. "Right, Gaara-san?"

"Um... Sure." He really wasn't happy about that. Sam had been thinking.

"Riia, if he can come into our world, then don't you think it's possible for us to get into his?"

"I guess so. I didn't really think about it that much."

"Of course you didn't," muttered Cathryn, knowing about Riia's infatuation with Gaara. Riia poked Cathryn hard in the arm.

"I heard that," she taunted playfully. Cathryn poked back, and Riia returned it. Cathryn pinched her, and Riia winced. "Fine, fine," she said, rubbing the spot.

"So... What're we gonna do now? Is this the only reason you called us over?"

"Um... yes."

"Couldn't you have called us?"

"You wouldn't believe me over the phone."

"Riia, I'm still not sure if I'm still asleep!"

"If you were, my poke wouldn't have hurt." She smiled.

"Fine. But still, what're we gonna do?" Riia rubbed her chin.

"I can think of things, but neither you nor Gaara will be willing to do them."

"Riia!"

"No, no, there's nothing nasty on the list." Cathryn sighed in relief. "Gaara-san, do you remember anything before you got here?"

"Nothing specific."

"Hm. Then we won't know how to get you back." Suddenly, as if on cue, a blinding light cut through the vision of all five of them. Riia grabbed Gaara for support, who pushed her away, and the rest looked very panicked. Soon everything had been replaced by a white light, which turned to black as Riia fell face first onto a very hard, grassy surface.